stuck between classesFollow

Druid would give you more options, healing especially, and solo very well, but necros are better solo machines because of their incredible dps.
Personally I would go with a druid, my alt is 72 and I enjoy every minute of it, whether soloing or being main healer for a group.

Necros are the ultimate loners, and can function very efficiently at 100% independence. They can also be valuable to groups and the like, though some group setups and situations leave them unable to get as much use out of their abilities.


Druids are a more even spread and are pretty talented at being a "Jack of all trades". A well played druid can fill multiple roles in group situations and do a good job of it. They are far from slouches on the solo side as well.


Edited, May 7th 2008 5:22pm by Saeel

1-50 necro is hard to beat for soloability and lack of need for gear. What I mean is you can have very sad gear and still xp well on a necro. Some people consider pet classes harder but you say you are a returning player so it shouldn't matter?

I suggest using your 8 character slots and testdriving every combo you think you might like. If you stick to the new zones (Crescent Reach and Blightfire Moors) and/or hotzones you will have multiple level 40s characters very quickly.

I find I have to get to level 25 just to have a flavor for whether I would like a class or not and into the 50s to get a sense of how it will be amongst others (you can solo most classes pretty effiently to 50 nowadays, but I see alot of characters getting bogged down 55-65).

Welcome back and enjoy whatever you decide.

With ward of the divine https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=6902

Skinspike potions and the really nice quested armor from Goru'kar Mesa (required level 45) your cleric would do rather well.

I soloed my new cleric to 51 in a decent time (just been sitting around for my guild's Naggy team since).

Higher level clerics can solo quite well now from what I have been told.

I do agree with playing some alts to get back into the game though, I just wouldn't discount your cleric if you liked playing the character.

Cleric dont solo well. I played a cleric for a long long time and it get really old hitting the heal button over and over. With a Druid he could steal heal and have the option to solo.

Rosleck, have you played a cleric since TSS with vow of valor and promised renewal? It adds some fun, I got a time lapse weapon with a proc aug and vow rk 2 and just use promised for healing and melee the hell out of everything. It lands 2k crit procs that have a 2k HoT recourse and with yaulp going the cleric does some fun things. There's also new AAs that can proc group heals when you stun things, clerics are a lot more appealing than just one button wonders now.

Personally, I'm partial to Druids. I played the Druid class from the beginning of my EverQuest career, seeping into my short WoW career (how very short and sweet THAT was.. lol) but Druids I find are really fun to play, and its easier to get around that most other classes with ports/sow. Though...nowadays druids are basically out of a job unless they're porting to newer locations. the old world business was slaughtered by the PoP Expansion with its POK Business...




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Edited, May 9th 2008 8:58am by Thaddium